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2.12 Nightshifter

Dean: "I hate those frigging things."
Sam: "You think I don't?"
Dean: "Yeah, well, one didn't turn into you and frame you for murder."

I expected them to resolve the Dean-wanted-for-murder plot by having the shapeshifter die looking like Dean again. But no. I like how they're unpredictable.

This episode moved quickly, what with the hostages and the paranoia, and I had no idea from one moment to the next who the shapeshifter really was. What I found more unnerving than the shapeshifter, though, was the revelation that the FBI knew all about the Winchesters and that they were actively pursuing Dean. No more anonymous ghostbusting heroes living off the grid; hello, America's most wanted. Dean has been pretty much shrugging off the murder rap. He wasn't shrugging this time. And now he's wanted for bank robbery, too. Sam must be wanted now, as well.

Poor Ronald Reznick. I could tell he was going to bite it because Sam lied to him in order to protect him. And this time, I think Sam was wrong. Yes, the supernatural crap is hard to believe, but it wouldn't have been that big a stretch for someone who believed the shapeshifter was a mandroid. Knowledge is power, after all.

Dean had two women he didn't know come on to him during the episode. ("Has your brother always been so wonderful?") That wasn't surprising. What was surprising is that we've had thirty-three previous episodes where strange women didn't come on to him.

Bits and pieces:

-- Dean said shapeshifters were the source of werewolf legends, and that silver kills them.

-- Lt. Robards was like a homely David Duchovny. I wonder if that was on purpose, another X-Files connection?

-- This week, we went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The motel room was wood-paneled and had a beer bottle and cow motif. I thought that was pretty funny.

-- Dean and Sam masqueraded as FBI agents and as "Securiservice" employees.

-- Jared's cast is gone. No mention of it, either. I didn't even notice at first.

Quotes:

Dean: "Frigging cops."
Sam: "They're just doing their job."
Dean: "No, they're doing our job. Only they don't know it, so they suck at it."

Sam: "What, are you pissed at me or something?"
Dean: "No, I just think it's a little creepy how good of a fed you are."

Dean: "Let me do the talking. I don't think he likes you very much, Agent Johnson." I'm assuming that was a reference to "Die Hard"?

Dean: "Look, I know this isn't going the way we wanted..."
Sam: (yelling) "Understatement!"

Agent Henricksen: "I want you and Sam out here, unarmed. or we come in. And yes, I know about Sam, too. Bonnie to your Clyde."
Dean: "Yeah, well, that part's true."

Another good one. I'm getting repetitious. Three out of four stars,

Billie





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